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AN  EXCELLENT  HABIT 


Women  of  wealth  are  today  falling  Into 
a  certain  habit.  They  seem,  many  of 
them,  determined  to  leave  their  money 
not  to  their  thirty-second  cousin  In  Perlee 
Lower  Corners,  but  to  some  highly  or¬ 
ganized  charity  or  mission.  ^lns.  WoVthlng- 
ton,  Widow  of  the  bishop  of  Nebraska^  did 
that  thing  last  month  and  Miss  fjarah 
Sage,  whose  will  was  probated  yesterday, 
was  as  single  In  her  purpose.  The  Impe¬ 
cunious  relatives  must  get  over  the  shock, 
for  they  are  going  to  have  plenty  of  com¬ 
pany.  When  people,  get  ready  to  die  they 
really  do  some  pretty  serious  thinking,  even 
If  It  Is  the  first  time  In*  their  lives.  They 
mean  to  do  good  with  their  money  if  they 
can  find  the  right  thing  to  do.  Recently  the 
foreign  mission  field  for  beque-sts  has  seemed 
to  attract  many  wealthy  men  and  women. 
Such  a  preference  is  decidedly  flattering. 
It 's  a  sort  of  Indorsement,  a  guarantee, 
and  it  becomes  a  splendid  asset  for  foreign 
missions  or  any  organization  connected 
with  them.  They  could  really  borrow 
money  on  It. 

It  Is  really  marvellous  —  the  extent 
of  interest  in  what  used  to  be  thought 
only  the  white-chokered  and  sallow  zealot 
who  burled  himself  in  hopeless  Hindu¬ 
stani  or  helped  supply  the  larder  of  can¬ 
nibals  of  the  South  Seas.  Those  who  fol¬ 
lowed  the  Women’s  Foreign  Missionary 
Jubilee  celebrations  which  closed  so  mag¬ 
nificently  in  New  York  this  week  were 
amazed  at  the  absorbing  Interest  of  those 
meetings.  Here  in  Boston  they  thrilled  and 
they  enthralled — for  the  stories  of  the  wo¬ 
men  missionaries  were  wonderful  and  in¬ 
spiring.  These  women  organized  and  car¬ 
ried  "on  this  fine  crusade  from  Oakland  to 
Portland  without  a  man’s  help  and  they 
simply  beamed  with  happiness  over  its 
success.  As  a  commemoration  fund  they 
(collected  $870,000— an  astonishing  sum,  and 
a  measure  of  the  power  of  the  cause.  Any¬ 
one  with  a  tendency  to  belittle  the  men 
and  women  engaged  in  missionary  fields 
ought  to  have  heard  the  keen,  bright  and 
pertinent  addresses  of  these  returned  mis¬ 
sionaries.  They  made  many  a  “witty 
assembly”  in  Boston  look  wan  and  worn 
by  comparison. 

It  Is  one  of  the  infallible  signs  of  eap- 
iency  and  sophistication  to  sneer  at  mis¬ 
sions  and  missionaries.  Your  “common 
sense  mian,”  who  prides  himself  on  his  free¬ 
dom  from  cant,  but  is  really  the  most 
transparent  of  Pharisees,  grows  livid  as  he 
pounds  on  the  table  at  his  club  to  empha¬ 
size  the  violence  of  his  language  on  this 
theme.  Those  Worldly  Wisemen  do  not 
know,  of  course,  how  much  of  their  own 
income  is  going  for  this  cause.  If  they  had 
any  appreciation  of  the  fact  that  their 
wives  or  sisters  or  sons  and  daughters 
were  spending  somewhat  for  such  a  silly 
end  they  would  expire  from  chagrin,  or  be 
shocked  into  sense.  But  even  these  gen¬ 
try,  unless  they  are  rotten  at  heart  and 
sour  on  the  world,  will,  when  driven  into 
a  corner,  admit  the  benefit  of  work  among 
the  slums  of  the  city  or  in  the  mining 
camps  of  the  West  or  the  mountain  whites 
of  the  South.  This  they  yield  only  after 
a  battle,  to  make  their  last  stand  on  the  Im¬ 
pregnable  redoubt  of  Opposition  to  Foreign 
Missions.  In  this  heroic  and  Inflexible 
pose  they  have  Custer,  Leonidas  and 
Arnold  Winkleried  wiped  off  the  map.  They 
are  full  of  derisive  arguments  and  fuller  of 
explosives. 

They  pour  forth  that  favorite  yarn 
that  It  costs  50  per  cent— or  was  it 
90?— of  all  foreign  mission  contributions 
merely  for  expenses  of  administration— a 
lie  that  remains  strong  and  seems  destined 
to  a  sort  of  perfidious  immortality  Six 
per  cent  is  the  real  figure,  but  they  won’t 
believe  it.  They  recite  all  the  true  or  false 
— aequo  anlmo  agetnr — stories,  they  have 
heard  of  the  blunders,  narrowness  or  even 
venality  of  missionaries,  and  roll  them 
along  as  epiglottis  comforters.  They  will 
admit  qaickly  that  the  woTld  In  general 
moves,  but  they  cannot  see  how  missions 
and  missionaries  move  too.  They  assume 
that  no  one  has  learned  any  lesson  from 
the  mistakes  of  other  missionaries,  and 
they  take  it  for  granted  that  the  narrower 
a  missionary  is  the  better  pleased  his  su¬ 
periors  at  home  are.  They  are  dead  sure 
that  when  a  missionary  enters  a  province 
of  India  or  China,  the  first  thing  he 
does  is  to  command  that  all  the  natives 
abandon  the  faiths,  ways  and  homes  of 
their  parents  and  embark  on  Christian¬ 
ity.  If  you  ask  them  to  give  you  an 
idea  of  the  day’s  work  of  a  foreign  mis¬ 
sionary,  they  are  stumped.  Did  they 
ever  hear  of  the  schools  of  natives  con¬ 
ducted  by  our  women  missionaries,  such 
as  are  supplying  the  new  schools  of 
China  now?  Certainly  not.  But  if  you, 
mention  “medical  •  missions”  to  them, 
they  begin  at  last  to  show  signs  of  re¬ 
turning  consciousness.  There  is  some¬ 
thing  tangible — something  they  can  see. 
And  if  you  show  them  how  large  a  share 
of  time  and  money  Is  spent  on  medical 
missions,  they  begin  to  grope  about  for  a 
white  flag.  The  errors  which  our  mis¬ 
sionaries  made  in  the  East  were  many 
and  humiliating,  but  only  by  such  mis¬ 
takes  could  better  ways  be  found.  Some 
of  them  are  making  mistakes  today  but 
vastly  more  are  not.  The  spirit  of  con¬ 
secration  and  the  spirit  of  wisdom  go 
hand  in  hand.  Furthermore,  the  men 
and  women  who  are  the  largest  contribu¬ 
tors  to  churches,  schools,  missions  and  up¬ 
lift  movements  at  home  are  the  most  gen¬ 
erous  supporters  of  the  same  Christian 
work  in  foreign  lands.  The  two  go  to¬ 
gether.  They  are  one. 

To  be  sure  the  field  has  its  rewards. 
The  life  Is  fascinating.  Certainly  it  ought 
to  hold  out  some  inducements  for  an 
eager,  sensitive  man  or  woman.  Com¬ 
pensation  ought  to  be  an  active  principle 
there  as  In  all  other  fields  of  philosophy. 
Whoever  has  heard  the  stories  of  the 
wretchedness,  squalor,  misery  and  un¬ 
speakable  vice  of  many  of  these  Eastern 
missions  should  rejoice  that  there  is 
something  else  in  them  than  this  dark 
and  vicious  side.  But  the  largest  element 
in  this  reward  is  the  consciousness  of 
progress  made,  the  realization  of  achieve¬ 
ment:  It  is  like  setting  a  peg  down  here 
and  carrying  it  several  rods  farther  to¬ 
morrow  and  so  on.  And  all  through  It 
appears  an  Inner  spiritual  glow  which  Is  a» 
true  today  as  twenty  .centuries  ago. 

The  man  in  his  club  who  sneers  at  for¬ 
eign  missions  only  seems  to  be  sophis¬ 
ticated  and  sapient.  In  reality  in  these 
days  of  wide  dissemination  of  informa¬ 
tion  he  Is  Inexcusably  ignorant  and  pro¬ 
vincial.  On  even  him  some  day  the  light 
will  shine. 


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